Magnifica not inflating six months after powerhead incident

[jedimasterben]

If the only thing you can do is a black out in order to do water changes then thats the price you have to pay imo.

Yeah, I think doing a weekly water change followed by a weekly blackout followed by another water change and weekly blackout is a good plan.

I have had luck with hydrogen peroxide dosing to get rid of dinos. My tank was covered with them and it took out a few corals but with daily H2O2 dosing they went away in about 10 days. My current magnifica was sensitive to it though and would retract almost instantly once the H2O2 hit the water. I did 5 mls a day on a 90 gallon system.

I can dose a liter of peroxide and it has no effect on this species. My magnifica now tolerates 3% peroxide (I used to dose it a lot in the 80) but it doesn't like 35%. Peroxide kills this species in vitro instantly, I have a video showing that under a microscope.



A salinity change of around 10ppt will do the same thing. Unfortunately, it only takes a single one to start getting back to bloom proportions, and that is exactly what has happened to me. I needed to move my tank about two and a half years ago now, long before I got this nem, and I figured I'd go gung-ho on them and basically reboot the system. I did a 15 second freshwater dip of all the rocks and corals I was going to keep, put it all into a 14g Biocube, dosed 100mL of 3% peroxide daily, and did two 14 day blackouts, with a freshwater dip and a week's time inbetween, along with running a 9w UV sterilizer. After getting the 80 all setup with some fresh Caribbean cultured live rock, I did another freshwater dip on everything. They couldn't possibly come back, right? Three months later, this is what I saw.